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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  . 9) Be yourself as much as you can. It's exhausting to try and maintain ... 's okay to step away from technology once in a while and catch up with all ... stories so much richer. 24) It's okay to want to love yourself, and it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  . Sleepyti.me tells you when and how much to sleep so that you feel rested in ... to hide from me. I put them back where I thought they might belong and ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  attend to. And, well, enjoy life. It’s so much less stressful after MIT ... meaningful. And also, take time every once in a while to step back and remind ... . Some advice to incoming freshmen: MIT is awesome, and there is so much

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  coursework for the paper and Novemburn), I haven’t had the energy to do much ... is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work ... semester, student clubs were once again allowed to meet and run events in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  to art class way back in high school and honestly hadn’t given it much ... plating everything and didn’t put too much energy into taking pictures. I ... ? Binging Avatar video essays and calling people to rant about Avatar. On one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  respective majors. It is very much true, although the difficulty and pain does ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  to plenty of events. And yet, it is so much easier to log off virtually and so much harder to spend quite as much time staring at a screen. In ... excitement and protectiveness over the frosh. There is much to learn and plenty

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  around the dorm Causes include: -Wanting to give as much time and energy ... to post it below, and I'll create a little addendum :) Freshman Anna ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You go to create a pset. You wrap nearby wifi antennas in foil and ... decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you ... and you were tired while you were working but now you aren’t. You go to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a position to do their absolute best, and asking them to spend energy on a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  ) Prof. Egozy is amazing and you get to create cool things like your own ... Mass and got to see fossilized dinnosaur footprints! I learned so much ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  . Given all that, I want to acknowledge the time, space, and energy feelings ... say otherwise. Finally, to reiterate:  No one does it alone, and many ... ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... hop the fence and bark at other non-numbered dogs. Dog 4 needs to be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know ... objectively horribly. The third one went much better: I showed up early and ... to being able to follow, read, write, and (thanks to 6.046, which I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know ... Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy ... graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  energy to create written records of their experiences and cultural ... once and it was my own fault. I was climbing the ladder to my bed and ... miss not having to worry much about buying groceries. I did buy some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... language. I know it’s long, so you can skip to around 15:30 and watch from ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself to make some low-commitment dailyvlogs, avoiding scripts and mostly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... , AP exams fees are reduced but not obliterated, and I’d love to meet the ... indicate welfare and food stamp income - she asked me which school I chose to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008